Hart District Council Playing Pitch Strategy 2015 to 2032 Final Report – July 2016 Amendment
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Hart District Council Playing Pitch Strategy 2015 to 2032 Final Report – July 2016 Amendment Hart District Council Playing Pitch Strategy: Final Report – July 2016 Amendment CONTENTS 1: Introduction - Brief, Scope, Vision and Aims 3 2: Summary of Key Findings and Issues 10 3: Scenario Testing 26 4: Policy Recommendations 28 5: Action Plan 32 6: Summary 44 Appendices: Assessment of Need Reports Appendix A: Assessment of Need - Cricket Appendix B: Assessment of Need - Football Appendix C: Assessment of Need – Hockey Appendix D: Artificial Grass Pitch Analysis www.continuumleisure.co.uk P a g e | 2 Hart District Council Playing Pitch Strategy: Final Report – July 2016 Amendment 1. Introduction – Brief, Scope, Vision and Aims. 1.1 Why the Strategy Has Been Developed With the changes to national planning policy and the notable changes to Hart in terms of population growth and housing development, the Council are currently developing their Local Plan and gathering the full evidence base for all services and provision across a wide range of opportunities and constraints within Hart. The new Open Space, Sport and Recreation Study will form an essential component of the emerging Local Plan and requisite Infrastructure Delivery Plan. As such, this Playing Pitch Strategy is an essential element of the emerging evidence base setting out a robust, evidence based review of the sporting and investment needs for Hart. Sport England’s Assessing Needs and Opportunities Guide (ANOG) for Indoor and Outdoor Sports Facilities provides the recommended approach to undertaking a robust assessment of need for indoor and outdoor sports facilities to meet the requirements of the Government’s NPPF which states that: ‘Access to high quality open spaces and opportunities for sport and recreation can make an important contribution to the health and well-being of communities. Planning policies should be based on robust and up-to-date assessments of the needs for open space, sports and recreation facilities and opportunities for new provision. The assessments should identify specific needs and quantitative or qualitative deficits or surpluses of open space, sports and recreational facilities in the local area. Information gained from the assessments should be used to determine what open space, sports and recreational provision is required.’ (NPPF, Paragraph 73) This Playing Pitch Strategy follows the specific Playing Pitch Strategy methodology (as detailed below in Section 1.4) to ensure full compliance with national planning policy and paragraph 73 in particular. Hart District Council has a long tradition of supporting sport and physical activity participation amongst residents and visitors. The Council recognises that sport and leisure facilities are essential components of the district’s built infrastructure which both drive and respond to growth, change and improvement across Hart. The specific drivers for the strategy came from each of the parties making up the Playing Pitch Steering Group and are shown in Figure 1.1 www.continuumleisure.co.uk P a g e | 3 Hart District Council Playing Pitch Strategy: Final Report – July 2016 Amendment Figure 1.1: Specific Drivers for the Strategy Local Authority Drivers o Health, fitness and physical activity o Community wellbeing in line with housing growth o Valid in planning terms o Delivery of social and physical infrastructure to support a minimum of 4,000 homes (from May 2014 – March 2032) o Draft Local Plan (to be agreed in 2016) Cricket Drivers Football Drivers Hockey Drivers Rugby Drivers o Addressing a decline in o Retention and growth o Retention and growth o Establish club rugby in participation using of teams. of teams. Hart with the different initiatives and o Retention of adult o Addressing the latent emergence of Hook and increasing access to the football (traditional and demand for hockey due Odiham RFC game. informal). to the lack of quality o Encourage community o Supporting youth o More opportunities for facilities. use of schools and MOD provision which is informal and different o Addressing the based pitches, e.g. Lord strong in Hampshire forms of the game. migration of players Wandsworth College o Retention of adult o Need for 3G AGPs to outside the District as and RAF Odiham cricket, supporting provide for more well as the need to clubs to retain existing flexible formats of the improve opportunities The PPS should assist in players. game. for hockey within Hart reviewing facilities to o Supporting clubs with facilitate further growing numbers e.g. There are 120+ adult The PPS should assist in development of rugby in Hook CC. football teams in the area reviewing any potential Hart. o Supporting multi use and it is important that the opportunities to work with provision / sites and strategy should help with football on any new improved relations with the retention of traditional developments within Hart. other sports. adult football. Data from the ECB’s National Cricket Playing Survey 2014 and 2015 shows an overall decline in participation nationally of 7%. This strategy should help to address this decline at a local level Sport England Drivers o To support the assessment of need against planning applications. o To see the PPS translated into Council policy and influence future decisions to protect playing field sites. o To determine future need for outdoor sport provision. 1.2 The Extent of the Study Area The extent of the study area is the Hart District Council boundary. It was originally agreed by the Steering Group that data would be collected on the basis of three areas: North East (B), South East (C) and West (A) and subject to any key differences, then decide whether presentation of the data and conclusions would be against these three areas, or presented for the District as a whole. The Steering Group concluded that this would be the latter, apart from the Assessment of Need Reports (see Appendix A, B and C) which would still reflect the Sub-Areas. Whilst the analysis of Sub Areas are dealt with on a sport specific basis in the appendices to assist with local planning and more local sporting needs, all future needs, planning applications and developments will be however, be reviewed on a District wide basis. www.continuumleisure.co.uk P a g e | 4 Hart District Council Playing Pitch Strategy: Final Report – July 2016 Amendment Housing and Growth Hart District’s close proximity to London and its connectivity to the whole of the south region provides continued opportunities for housing and population growth. From its most recent Strategic Housing Market Assessment (SHMA), it predicts housing growth of a minimum of 4,000 homes from May 2012 to March 2032. The detailed breakdown by population by age group is shown in Figure 1.2 below. It should be noted that the figures for 2011 differ from those published by ONS, because as explained in the SHMA, an adjustment to the published ONS figures available at the time were made to allow for unattributed population change and employment growth. Figure 1.2 Projected population growth in Hart PROJ 5 (SNPP (updated)) population change 2011 to 2032 – Hart Population Population Change in % change Age group 2011 2032 population from 2011 0-4 5,687 5,773 86 1.5% 5-15 12,693 14,837 2,144 16.9% 16-29 13,207 14,269 1,062 8.0% 30-44 19,606 20,646 1,040 5.3% 45-64 25,247 27,108 1,861 7.4% 65-74 8,566 11,584 3,018 35.2% 75-84 4,783 8,358 3,575 74.7% 85+ 1,873 5,412 3,539 188.9% Total 91,662 107,986 16,384 17.8% Source: Hart District Council, July 2015 Figure 1.2 shows that the projected population for Hart is set to increase by 17.8% between 2011-2032. Any future sports facility developments will need to take this into account. An important element of this could be a new settlement in Winchfield which potentially could include between 4,000- 5,000 homes in total (noting some of which would be delivered post 2032). 1.3 The Vision and Objective The strategy will form a blueprint for outdoor sport provision and management, nurturing traditional forms of team games and providing opportunities for each sport to work together to develop new forms of their games and new ways of providing facilities to meet changing social trends. The strategy, in line with the emerging Local Plan will look ahead to 2032. However, the site specific action plans will look forward five years. Sport England advocates that best practice for the strategy is that it will be a live document with the data reviewed on an annual basis. 1.4 The Approach to Developing the Strategy The approach and methodologies adopted align with Sport England's Playing Pitch Strategy Guidance (October 2013 and updates as at 03/03/2014 www.sportengland.org/facilities- planning/planning-for-sport/planning-tools-and-guidance/playing-pitch-strategy- guidance/) tailored to the study area as set out below. The strategy aims to be robust, based on local needs and deliverable. This objective is assured by adhering to the 'ten steps' advocated in the current Sport England Playing Pitch Strategy Guidance (October 2013) as per Figure 1.3. www.continuumleisure.co.uk P a g e | 5 Hart District Council Playing Pitch Strategy: Final Report – July 2016 Amendment Figure 1.3: Ten Stage Approach Stage A - Step 1: Prepare and tailor the approach Stage B - Step 2: Gather supply information and views - Step 3: Gather demand information and views Stage C - Step 4: Understand the situation at individual sites - Step 5: Develop the current and future pictures of provision - Step 6: Identify the key findings and issues Stage D - Step 7: Develop the recommendations and action plan - Step 8: Write and adopt / agree the strategy Stage E - Step 9: Apply and deliver the strategy - Step 10: Keep the strategy robust and up to date.